{"id":12141,"date":"2010-01-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T00:00:00","slug":"The Shoa Must Go On\r\n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=12141","title":{"rendered":"The Shoa Must Go On"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week saw Holocaust survivor Thomas Blatt, 82 give testimony at the trial of John Demjanjuk<\/a>. Blatt stated that he still has nightmares about his time at the camp at Sobibor, “I go there in my dreams, they are so real. In them I am still there. I can’t get it out of my head. This is the price I paid for getting out.”<\/p>\n

Ukrainian born John Demjanjuk, 89, is accused by the Munich court of being an \u2018accessory\u2019* in the death of 27,900 Jews at the Sobibor camp while being a German POW. As it happens, the German Justice system is now chasing \u2018accessories\u2019<\/a> to the Nazi crime. Embarrassingly enough it doesn\u2019t do very well in the current case. Demjanjuk denies anything to do with the crime referred to him and furthermore, the German prosecution lacks any evidence whatsoever that supports or links Demjanjuk personally with murder or any other holocaust related criminal event.<\/p>\n

Mr Blatt does not remember John Demjanjuk either, nor can he say if he is guilty as charged of helping to gas 27,900 Jews. “More than 60 years have passed\u201d said Blatt \u201cI can’t even remember the faces of my parents. The court must decide if he was there. If he was there when I was there then I can imagine he shoved Jews at bayonet point to the gas chambers\u201d.<\/p>\n

According to The Mirror<\/a>, Blatt was brought to the court \u201cto give a living voice to the horror instead of a dusty historical account\u201d. Seemingly in our current state of hyper realistic world affairs, historical documents and factuality are diminished to \u201cdust\u201d while a personal narrative, saturated with speculation, associations and emotions are realised as a persuasive \u2018living voice\u2019. At the end of the day, Demjanjuk, a geriatric man is accused here of assisting in the death of no less than 27,900 people. The German court better bring something concrete rather than mere speculations.<\/p>\n

Mr Blatt maintained that \u201cUkrainians \u2018like Demjanjuk\u2019 were the worst of the worst. We were more afraid of them than we were of the Germans.” There were \u201c120 Ukrainian guards compared with only 17 S.S. men at any one time\u201d said Blatt to the German court. Blatt clearly \u2018got away\u2019 with generalisations. I wonder whether a Palestinian boy suggesting that Jews \u2018like Blatt\u2019 who killed his family a year ago dropping bombs on a UN shelter in Gaza, would also be welcomed at the Munich court. For some bizarre reason, within the context of the Western liberal discourse, where Jews are concerned, generalising is okay and so is freely employing racial categories and even suggesting guilt by association. Somehow the rest of humanity is advised to avoid such a manner of speech.<\/p>\n

However, such crude blanket accusations of the Ukrainians as a people that apparently pass as evidence in the Munich court, may actually throw light on the sinister motivation behind the current court case. Like the rest of humanity, the Germans seem to show some clear signs of \u2018Shoa fatigue\u2019. They appear to prefer to withdraw responsibility from the Nazi past and to leave Ukrainian POWs to take the heat. Similarly, we could expect that at a certain stage America and Britain may decide to use the same tactics and to charge their collaborators in the Arab world for the death and carnage they themselves left behind. Israel, that is now facing pressure for its mounting record of crimes against humanity, may also put the German trick into action. It may also want to cherry pick some Palestinians and charge them for being accessories to the crimes against the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

But there is a much more interesting twist to this evolving shameful legal case. While Demjanjuk denies being an accessory to the Nazi crime, Mr Blatt freely admits working for the SS and assisting in what he himself describes as a death machine: \u201cAnother job was to cut the hair of women about to be killed\u201d, says Blatt. “Those from places like Holland believed the lie,” he maintains. “The women would say to me: ‘Please don’t cut my hair too short!’ But the Polish Jews – they already knew. They had heard too many stories, smelled the bonfires at night.\u201d Blatt continues, “they would say ‘How can you do this? How can you work for the S.S.?’ I did it to survive.”<\/p>\n

One may wonder why Blatt\u2019s will to survive is more Kosher<\/i> than an Ukrainian prisoner\u2019s desire to come home. In other words, considering Blatt\u2019s admission in assisting the SS, why isn\u2019t he charged by the same German court for being an \u2018accessory\u2019 for the Nazi crime?<\/p>\n

One possible answer is that Blatt is a Jew and Demanjuk is a Goy<\/i>. As sad as it may be, in the eyes of the Munich court, a Jew\u2019s will to \u2018survive\u2019 must be superior to an Ukrainian\u2019s desire to make it to the end of the war in one piece. If this is indeed the case, the German court fails to operate ethically and universally. Accordingly, it would be reasonable to argue that the Munich court fails to draw the necessary and elementary lesson from Germany\u2019s Nazi past. German Justice somehow differentiates between people according to their race and ethnicity.<\/p>\n

\u2026……………….<\/div>\n

*An \u2018accessory\u2019 is a person who assists in the commission of a crime, but who does not actually participate in the commission of the crime as a joint principal.<\/p>\n

To read more:
\nhttp:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/accessory-vs-perpetrator-by-gilad-atzmon.html<\/p>\n

Source: http:\/\/www.gilad.co.uk\/writings\/the-shoa-must-go-on-by-gilad-atzmon.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Despite his conviction for \u2018crimes against humanity\u2019 having been overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court, and notwithstanding a lack of hard evidence, a German court is still trying John Demjanjuk, 89, as an \u2018accessory\u2019 in the death of 27,900 Jews <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}